Subscription Rates for The Athens Messenger Circulation
The notice lists carrier rates at 15 cents weekly and mail rates in Ohio: one year 4.50 dollars, ten weeks 1.00 dollar, four weeks 80 cents, and a 15 cent option. Associations include American Newspaper Publishers Association and Inland Daily Press Association.
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio Select List
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Ohio Dailies
Inland Daily Press Association
United Prem Associations
Ohio
A Thought for Today Excerpt
A brief devotional line quoting Exodus 34 17 warns against worshiping molten gods. The fragment presents a moral reflection framed as a religious proverb.
Noisy planes spark call for regulation and safer heights
In Ohio and Chicago views a deadly crashing airplane and growing air traffic prompt calls for regulation. Anxieties over low flights disturb homes and business, while planners debate height limits to prevent crashes and protect neighborhoods. The piece also notes 1929 housing trends increasing apartments over houses, with concerns about child development and outdoor play.
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Chicago
Ohio
Main Street
Court
Washington Street
Athens
The Rights of Children in Backyards Declining
A compact lament notes that children lose backyard freedom as private outdoor space shrinks. The piece argues every boy deserves a marble EB game in his yard and girls deserve space for dolls and play, warning of a creeping loss of childhood liberty.
Dorothy Dell Goff Named World's Most Beautiful Girl
A Galveston pageant crowned Dorothy Dell Goff of New Orleans as the world’s most beautiful girl. She candidly admits dishes and cooking bore her, noting many celebs pretend homemaking is all charm while preferring other tasks.
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Dorothy Dell Goff
New Orleans
Galveston
Dorothy
Circus Here in the Mid-Twenties
A New York City memory describes a shabby brick wall covered with chalk marks by youths. The crowding scene centers on a doorway to a basement turned impromptu circus with children acting as trapeze artists and performers using found props and improvised gear.
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New York
Manhattan
Circus hErk
A Glimpse Into a Shadowed Basement Speakeasy Scene
The narrator describes a damp basement entrance from a cellar speakeasy, noting a musty odor and crumbly stairs. Spider webs fill the space while a torn circus poster hints at a fading era. Two showmen labor in the dim light amid fragments of old objects.
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Avere
Boyhood Circus Efforts Across Yard and Barn Stages
The narrator recalls arranging improvised circuses in backyards and barns with eight fellow lads plus extras in every town. They describe hayloft dives, a 10 pin admission rarely paid, and a contrast between innocent exhibitionism and adult scrutiny as he notes the idea of New York as a distant urban spectacle.
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New York
Buried Awakening Reimagines a Boyhood Dream
A reflective line speaks of rekindling a glorious, excited dream during creation, asserting that one must be a boy again to truly feel it. The passage centers on memory, imagination, and the transformative thrill of making something new.
Aging in America and the Burden of Dependency
The piece argues that most Americans die with wealth under $100 and that over half of those past 65 rely on others. It contends that in a nation with average intelligence, willingness to work, and saving capacity, independence in old age should be attainable.
Pocahontas Poem and Nathalia Crane Birthday Tale
A fragment mentions Nathalia Crane, described as an infant prodigy turned 17, hosting a birthday party and discussing her epic poem Pocahontas. The piece mocks Wall Street bankers and predicts a national shift led by poets, with Crane as a symbolic queen of the United States.
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Nathalia Crane
Wall Street
America
United States
Effects of Unseasonable Heat and Drought
Washington report outlines drought impacts on public health, water shortage, and sanitation. It notes reduced bathing, sluggish sewage flows, polluted drinking water risks, and wells drying up. Ice rationing disrupts food cooling, prices rise, and gardens near cities burn in the heat.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
America
Russia buys farm machinery for co operatives and state farms
In sixty days Russia has spent 40.5 million dollars on tractors and harvest machinery for cooperative and government farms. The purchase includes combines and devices for harvesting, weighing, and handling grain, illustrating Russia's apparent farm efficiency.
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Russia
Co-Operativee
British Airplanes Drive Off Afridis in War Actions
British aircraft have driven away thousands of Afridi fighters attacking towns under British control. Afridis continue ground actions, while a small number of British planes can dismiss them from the air.
Airplane Bombs In Kentucky Mine Region Shock City
For the first time in the labor conflict era an airplane appeared over Providence Kentucky at six in the morning circling the city. It dropped a bomb at a mine mouth and other bombs before leaving. No injuries were reported though explosions echoed for miles and terror filled the town.
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Providence
Britain Sees Air Attacks as Hindu Muslim Tragedy Worsens
Report details intense communal violence in India with Hindus and Muslims clashing. It notes Moslems and Hindus attacking each other, a Mohammedan droughty man washing clothes near a Hindu temple, and casualties estimated at twenty killed and three hundred injured.
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Britain
India
Convicts Save Drowning Victims On the Hudson
Near Sing Sing Prison four convicts serving long sentences faced drowning in a sinking boat. They offered to rescue those in peril and pledged to return. Guards granted consent and the convicts successfully saved the others.
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Hudson
Sing Sing
Four Men Return to Complete Their Terms
The statement notes four men who returned to serve out their terms. It contrasts thousands in prisons who, with different youth, might have become useful men and thousands living in luxury who could be in prison if their childhood had mirrored that of the average convict.
Wall Street Eyes Farmers After Rain Lifts Crops
Rain improves crops and lifts mood on Wall Street earlier in the day but gloom settles late. The piece notes a rare sympathy from investors toward farmers, contrasting old Wall Street indifference with current concern about farm troubles.
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Wall Street
Monsignor Lavelle Denounces Violence in Theater
Monsignor Lavelle, likely under Cardinal Hayes of New York, publicly denounces violence in theater, urging peaceful behavior and moral conduct following incidents.
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Monsignor Lavelle
Cardinal Hayes
New York
Rebuke Aims to Move Powerful New York Church
The rebuke of the city’s strongest church is urged as a means to sway public opinion and influence police action, tackling a stance that officials have not resolved.
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New York
Ripley's Proof on Shoe Sizes Based on Long Parliament Standards
The text notes that shoe sizes derive from standards set by the Long Parliament in the 17th century. It mentions the theoretical lowest unit as the length of a grain of barley and its relation to wheat measured in higher units of thirteen.
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Long Parliament
Hare Adaptation Aims Uphill Speed Over Downhill Balance
Description notes a hare's leg proportions favoring uphill running, giving it speed uphill while risking balance on descents. The column also mentions an upcoming feature titled Tomorrow The Vegetarian Cat.
Family Returns From Vacation To Ohio Places
Mrs. A. EB. Algeo and children Ernest John and Edward have returned home from a vacation visiting Cleveland Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Dr. John W. Wilee of Columbus, football coach at Ohio State, married Minerva W. Conners a former Athens girl. Fred W. Bush elected president of the Select List of Ohta Dailies at a Columbus meeting.
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John W. Wilee
Columbus
Ohio State University
Minerva W. Conners
Athens
Fred W. Bush
Ohta
Mr and Mrs T W Craig Leave by motor for Cumberland Ad
Mr and Mrs T W Craig and their son Tom depart by motor for Cumberland Maryland or Cumberland Ad unspecified in text. The departure is noted without additional details such as dates or travel plans.
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T. W. Craig
Tom
Moter
Cumberland
Athens County Property Owners Receive Appraisement Mail
Mrs Henry Zenner and her sons Roe and Phillip with chauffeur Frank Sheldon left yesterday for a two week motor trip to Mansfield Cleveland Toledo and Detroit They planned to meet Mr Zenner in Columbus and return after completing appraisement notices to owners in the county.
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Athens County
Henry Zenner and Sons
Roe and
Phillip
Frank Sheldon
Mansfield
Cleveland
Toledo
Detroit
Mr. Zenner
Columbus
Phi Delta Beta group departs for Niagara Falls convention
George Thomas Frank Kurtz Orla Miller Guy BD Miller Don McVay and Robert Wood leave for Niagara Falls to attend a Phi Delta Beta fraternity convention ending there.
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George Thomas
Frank Kurtz
Orla Miller
Guy BD. Miller
Don McVay
Robert Wood
Niagara Falls
Phi Delta Dbeta Fraternity
More Truth Than Poetry by James J. Montague
A reflective verse piece contrasts the lure of leisure with the pull of hard work. It weighs ambition against comfort and questions the value of enduring toil for distant success, framing work as both necessary and costly. It closes with quips on endurance, wealth, and cider.
Evolution book in Scopes trial referenced as New Essentials of Biology
The text notes Hunter's New Essentials of Biology as the evolution book involved in the Scopes case in Tennessee. It also covers twilight duration by latitude, library disease concerns, pear salad ideas, the motto Saie et doce, cranberry growth, and School Boy Patrol rules.
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Tennessee
Hunter
G. W. A. Billings
New York City
C. O. Ff
Fairfax
National Safety Council
Chicago
Ilinois
Happenings About the Capital on Suffrage Leaders
Rodney Dutcher surveys surviving suffrage figures a decade after the amendment. Notable leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, Lucy Stone and Carrie Chapman Catt are profiled as patron saints of the National League of Women Voters. The piece notes ongoing roles in law, politics, writing and international efforts, including the National Woman's Party and cross-border women’s rights initiatives.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washngton
Yesteryear
Susan B. Anthony
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Julia Ward Howe
Massachusetts
American Suffrage Association
National League of Women Voters
Lucy Stone
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Association
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Alice Stone Blackwell
Massaachusetts
Maud Wood Park
Equal Suffrage League
Congressional Committee
The
National Organization
Europe
League of Nations
Florence E. Allen
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Harriet Taylor Upton
Ohio Welfare Department
Emily Newell Blair
Democratic National Committee
Woodrow Wilson
White House
National Woman's Party
Congress
Woman's Party
Alice Paul
O. H. P. Belmont
Doris Stevens
National American Association
Mias Paul
Miss Stevens
Inter-American Commission of Women
American Republica
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